Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-11
GEN. LOGAN'S BOOK.
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tract with His Publishers-At work ON
seeond Book Three weeks Before
His Funeral Day.
When Gen. Logan decided to write his
book it was plain to him that he must have
q little time to call his own, and q place not
| belonging to the public. / think this more
| than anything else, made him feel the neces'
| sity of having a house. But it was MIS-
| Logan who first discovered the bargain ID
| the purchase. I think the wife OF Represen-
tative Butterworthh heard of the house for sale
| and suggested the bargain or advantages
| connected with it. Mrs Logan looked up
| the agent, hcar1 the price and went home to
tell her husband. Gen. Logan did not enter
into the feeling for some days. He declared
il would be useless to think of it, and said
his business ventures had never turned out
we'll and this would be another debt to carry.
Finally Mrs. Logan persuaded him to look
Mt the house.. and they went over it together
good bargain, $50, 600 for the fine, roomy
old house, still sounder than half the new
cues costing double tho money. And there
was q large lot Of ground, tho location one
Of the most beautiful and overlooking the
whole carntal, with the Potomac and distant
Virginia hills.
"cALUNEr PLACE"
The place was bought and named "Calu-
met Place" for the street on which their
Chicago house stands. A week later it would
not have been possible to buy it for less than
SEQ, 600. The agent said the owners were
crazy when they put the price on it, and
after ward tho owners thought tho agent was
right atout it. I believe the terms Of pay
n,ent were made easy, and had the general
lived no could have paid for it without
much difficulty. But he was anxious, even
impatient. to get out of debt, and he worked
with a rcsistless energy and u%ntiring industry
on his book. 1t is too true, no matter what
Is said to the contrary. that his contract with
his publishers was not fair to himself. The
book has sold very well, and Gen. Logan
ought to have received a greater profit.
He knew this, and was in fact made aware
of it just before he started OF his California
trip last August. It troubled him exceeding
~. Had he been a shrewd, calculating man
he would have made q different contract.
He was not grasping in the sense Of protect
ing himself. But the hardest part of the
whole business was that Gen. Logan had
been offered $50, QUO for his manuscript out
and out. It was no wonder that he felt dis
couraged and depressed and disappointed
when he realized tia. he was getting no
money for his book. Had l 9 been physically
strong and well he could have risen above
the depression. He was not o man to talk
in a complaining way about himself, and
few outside of a small circle knew Of these
things
A sEcoND BOOK
After bis return hero he went to work
again on a second book. He had always
worked late into the night, and was used to
it. He wrote with remarkable facility,
rapidly and correctly. When he had any
thing to do he wanted to do it without delay.
But tho old habit Of night work told on him
as never before. He complained of feeling
tired, and was without his usual strength. On
the last day he was out he called at his old
boarding house and spent half an hour. He
often went back there, dropping in on his
way to or from the Capitol. He said he felt
at home there, and it was certain that he
was always a welcome visitor.
Or this day, and just three weeks before
the day of his funeral, he talked of what he
called want of energy. He declared he could
not get well rested. Some reference was
made to President Arthur, and the general
said: II feel very much as he did. If this
is all-if there is no other life, then this life
is a failure" He was asked about his
health, and som one said: General, your
doesn't come back to trouble
you any more. does it?'' His answer was:
'No; -I've hardly felt it for a year." That
day before reaching home the pain attacked
his wrist, and a day or two later he was con-
Gned to his room.-Cor. Boston Transcript.